Adobe already killed almost all competition in the creative space and I hate that. I’m thankful for software like Davinci Resolve and the Affinity apps.
Recently learned about Krita too, which is more for art but it’s nice
There’s a plugin for AI generation now
I didn’t know they had AI generation now, I need to use it again. I haven’t had a project that needed it for a bit.
There’s also GIMP as a Photoshop alternative
And Dark Table as a Lightroom alternative
Both are pretty great IMO
GIMP was painful to use. Has it gotten any better yet?
Unfortunately, nope.
I’m not sure what you mean, I’ve found it quite easy to use though it does have a learning curve like most things
When was the last time you tried it?
Used it a few years ago after Blender got the 2.9 treatment. The interface felt very clunky and unintuitive for basic operations compared to anything else. I remember looking at a tutorial and thinking what?
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Capture One is not foss but fucking great
I wish we can get a Krita, Inkscape, GIMP ecosystem that rivals their offerings. I recommend these tools to most of my students (gamedev) because they’re already great, but if they wanna work in this area in industry they’re also forced to learn Adobe…
There is actually a wip project that aims to do just that, unite all these FOSS apps in one, interconnected ecosystem.
I don’t remember what it was called, I’ll get back to you once I find it again.
It’s OpenCreativity
Really cool idea, I hope this gains traction!
Updated my comment: OpenCreativity
Oh, I used to like Krita. That’s disappointing that they’re yet another on the AI train
Why though?
The image generation algorithm is open source and it runs locally. Artists can use it instead of giving up their art to some company to abuse. We’ve had tools like this for years, this is just better and easier to use
Artists are a bit tetchy about their stuff being used for the training data.
Obligatory shout out to Blender, the most amazing community project ever. And GPL’d to boot! Suck it Adobe! obscene crotch tugging gestures
Kdenlive is also a really cool video editor. I use it occasionally. You don’t see many professionals using it but honestly it can do a lot more than what most people give it credit for.
For anyone using Figma, there’s a free open source alternative called PenPot that’s quite decent.
Awesome! Found out about Figma last week so I’ll use this instead.
Ligma?
Figma balls
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Figma dick in Adobe’s mouth
What’s figma?
UI design software
Seriously, how will that kill competition? I could probably tell 10 free tools from the top of ma head.
Tell us just ONE that is as capable and effective as Figma.
Designers don’t use Figma because it’s “trendy”, we do it because it’s the best tool for the job. The only free tool that comes even close to being good enough is PenPot, and even that is years away from being a true competitor.
There are collaboration tools in Figma that simply do not exist in the competition, so your ability to list tools that are also capable of drawing rectangles with round corners doesn’t mean anything if you can’t properly manage a design system that is reusable with a team of a dozen designers or more.
PenPot
Figma is no freebie tool. It’s an industry standard. People train in it and use it for their living.
There are many free tools, sure, but not many tools that are accepted in corporate environments.
Eh, another Excel.
Figma is the current trendy choice for design software in big tech. But give it a few years and it’ll change again. Tech is full of followers.
Personally I find it to be absolute garbage. It’s so much harder to navigate and use as a non-designer than something like zeplin.
That could perhaps be explained by the fact that Zeplin does not have in any way the same goal as Figma.
Zeplin is not a design software, it’s a presentation and sharing platform. Yes, the one-trick pony is easier to navigate than the software used to create the damn ponies, that’s not much of a surprise.
figma balls?
American capitalism no longer innovates. It now only stifles competition through patent abuse, regulations that make market entry difficult to impossible and domination of market resources. If all of that fails then they buy the competition and increase prices before repeating the whole cycle all over again.
This is why my digital art pipeline is FOSS at every turn. I dropped like $300 for Substance Designer / Painter’s indie license. I was so excited to learn it.
…and then it got “rolled into the AdObE FaMiLy” and is subscription-only (right after they promised angry users they would do no such thing and we didn’t believe it for a second) and now it’s mega bloated “iNdUsTrY StAnDaRd” lock-in-ware like the rest.
So I basically just learned my lesson about commercial software rug-pulls.
As a counter example there are fields like machine learning where there is a lot of “capitalist” innovation
How is that a counter example? The same 3 - 5 corporations are still in control.
the claim is that American capitalism no longer innovates
innovation is not going bankrupt and clearing the way for another company. control and innovation are not even remotely close.
Lol that lasted long…
Did someone manage to uninvent LLMs and the innovations that came shortly before like transformers? EDIT: ah i see that people are gatekeeping the innovations. so are attention networks also “barely useful”? if so why aren’t you guys improving upon it or creating another sham if it’s so meaningless and just smoke you should be able to get a billion in investments.
I heard Steve Jobs died from figma
Who the hell is Steve Jobs?
He’s the guy who directed the movie Jaws.
No, that was Steve Spielberg, you’re thinking of the guy who jumped all over the Microsoft stage shouting “DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOP–gaaaassp–DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!”
No, that’s Steve Ballmer, you’re thinking of the award-winning lead actor of HBO’s hit series: “Boardwalk Empire”
Naw fam, that’s Steve Buscemi, you’re thinking of that lovable “Crocodile Hunter” who taught us all to love and protect nature by loudly sneaking up to terrifying reptiles and poking them with sticks.
Adobe to the EC: “Figma balls!”
There is still hope. I’m not holding my breath tough.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Updated The European Commission says Adobe’s proposed $20 billion purchase of web-first design collaboration startup Figma will harm competition in the region unless the pair devise remedies to resolve this.
The transaction would represent the most expensive sale of a privately owned software company in history, and was flagged as a concern by 16 member states of the European Union in February, such is the lack of credible alternatives to Adobe on the market.
The EC leaned in for an in-depth investigation of the merger in August, and late on Friday evening - in the Euro time zone - it delivered the damning preliminary verdict in a Statement of Objections.
By erasing Figma as a competitive hurdle, Adobe would also tighten its grip on the supply of vector and raster editing tools, the EC added.
The sale was first announced in September 2022, and served to unsettle some developer customers of Figma, ones that were worried Adobe would kill off the free version, or its own XD software, anxiety the clearly EC shares.
The EU’s regulator isn’t the only one taking a keen interest in the $20 billion merger; the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and the Department of Justice’s antitrust team are also inspecting the proposal.
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I at first thought it was the action figurine company Figma and was very confused.
$20B? Holy shit that’s alot
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What’s Figma?
An UX (user experience) design app. Adobe has his own app for this: Adobe XD (Yes, that’s its actual name) but since nobody wanted it, they decided to buy the competition, that is, Figma.
Read the article.
It was a joke.
